After an up-and-down week in commodity and wholesale markets, the weekly Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration price for diesel rose by less than a half-cent.
The price published by the EIA Monday was $3.253 a gallon, a gain of 0.4 cents. It marks the fourth consecutive week of a price increase, which followed a one-week status quo number. The end result: There has not been a downturn in the DOE/EIA price in five weeks.
Commodity diesel prices had a volatile stretch last week,...